Bibliography: The Information Commons and Beyond

A bibliography of resources about the Information Commons model in libraries

Information Commons Issues and Trends: Voices From the Frontline

Attendees at this ACRL panel were invited to increase their understanding of Information Commons (IC) concepts, models, planning, implementation and assessment. The event was a discussion panel with IC leaders regarding models that their libraries were developing, evolutionary processes their ICs have undergone, challenges and successes in the past years, and what the future holds

Calorimetry for ILC Experiments: CALICE Collaboration R&D

The CALICE Collaboration is carrying out research and development into calorimetry for a detector at the International Linear Collider (ILC). CALICE is investigating a range of technologies for both electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry. An overview of the prototypes and selected test-beam results are presented.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the ICHEP08 conferenc

Providence College Library+Commons Promotional Branding Material: Library+Commons Brochure

A two-sided handout describing the features of the Library+Commons at Providence College

U.S. Influences on Korean Education: Understructure, Imprint and Overlay

A sociohistorical analysis of American influence on Korean education philosophy and structures. The intent of this work is to provide a frame of reference for knowledge transfer , categorize the influences, and subsequently critique them based on their substance and integrity

An International Prospectus for Library & Information Professionals: Development, Leadership and Resources for Evolving Patron Needs

The roles of library and information professionals must change and evolve to: 1. accommodate needs of tech-savvy patrons; 2. thrive in the Commons & Library 2.0; 3. provide integrated, just-in-time services; 4. constantly update and enhance technology; 5. design appropriate library spaces for research and productivity; 6.adapt to new models of scholarly communication and publication, especially: the Open Archives Initiative and digital repositories; 7. remain abreast of national and interanational academic and legislative initiatives affecting the provision of information services and resources. Professionals will need to collaborate in: 1. Formal & informal networks – regional, national, and international; and; 2. Library staff development initiatives – regional, national, international Professionals will need to use libraries as laboratories for ongoing, lifelong training and education of patrons and of all library staff ( internal patrons ): the library is the framework in which Information Research Literacy is the curriculum . Professionals will need to remain aware of trends and challenges in their regions, the EU, the US and North America, of models which might provide inspiration and support: 1. Top Technology Trends; 2. New paradigms of professionalism; 3. Knowledge-creation and knowledge consumption; 4. The shifting balance of the physical library with the virtual-digital librar

Creating Digital Art History: Library, Student, and Faculty Collaboration

Over the last two decades, teaching, learning, and research in higher education have developed a growing digital presence. Digital development in the humanities has been slow relative to most other areas in academia, and with some exceptions, art and art history have enjoyed slow digital growth within the humanities. Within this environment, the article here presents one collaborative model for digital art history, rare in its exclusive focus on undergraduate “junior scholars”. Undergraduate senior-level art history and studio art students at Providence College collaborate annually with art history and studio art faculty to publish their senior theses in print format as the Art Journal. In the last few years, students, faculty, and digital library staff have enhanced this collaboration to include the publishing from process to product of the Art Journal as a complementary digital Art Journal. They collaborate in creating digital art history and digital studio art in order to bring exponentially greater meaning, significance and visibility to the students’ senior culminating works through real-world digital publishing, including quality control, copyright issues, and ideas related to persistent access and ongoing global visibility for the scholarly and creative works, and for the student scholars. These students function as real-world collaborative scholarly partners in publishing their culminating academic and artistic work globally, and persistently accessible in Providence College’s digital repositories. This case study evidences engagement in meaningful digital knowledge creation focused on the intellectual and creative output of student-scholars and student-artists (art historians and studio artists) as a model for other student-faculty-digital library professional collaborations. Note: Full text document is a pre-print version of article due to publisher rights. Publisher\u27s version available at the following citation: Bailey, D. Russell. Creating Digital Art History: Library, Student and Faculty Collaboration . The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts. Volume 10. Issue 2. 2015. pp. 1-10. Ninth International Conference on the Arts in Society website: http://artsinsociety.com/the-conference-201

Providence College Library+Commons Promotional Branding Material: Library+Commons Wordle

A PDF file containg a WORDLE graphic of Library+Commons concepts

Boundedness of Maximal Operators of Schr\"odinger Type with Complex Time

Results of P. Sj\"olin and F. Soria on the Schr\"odinger maximal operator with complex-valued time are improved by determining up to the endpoint the sharp $s \geq 0$ for which boundedness from the Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb{R})$ into $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ occurs. Bounds are established for not only the Schr\"odinger maximal operator, but further for a general class of maximal operators corresponding to solution operators for certain dispersive PDEs. As a consequence of additional bounds on these maximal operators from $H^s(\mathbb{R})$ into $L^2([-1, 1])$, sharp results on the pointwise almost everywhere convergence of the solutions of these PDEs to their initial data are determined.Comment: 12 pages. One further minor correction. To appear in the Revista Matem\'atica Iberoamerican

Abundances determined using Si II and Si III in B-type stars: evidence for stratification

It is becoming clear that determination of the abundance of Si using lines of Si II and Si III can lead to quite discordant results in mid to late B-type stars. The difference between the Si abundances derived from the two ion states can exceed one dex in some cases. We have carried out a study intended to clarify which kinds of B stars exhibit this discrepancy, to try to identify regularities in the phenomenon, and to explore possible explanations such as abundance stratification by comparing models to observed spectra. We used spectra from the ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter and FEROS spectrograph, supplemented with spectra from the ESO and ELODIE archives, of magnetic Bp, HgMn, and normal B-type stars ranging in effective temperature from about 10500 to 15000 K. Using these spectra, we derived abundances using the spectrum synthesis program ZEEMAN which can take into account the influence of magnetic fields. For each star, accurate abundances of Si II, Si III, Ti, Cr, and Fe were derived. All magnetic Bp stars in our sample show a discordance between the derived abundances of the first and second ions of silicon, with the latter being between 0.6 - 1.7 dex higher. The same behaviour is observed in the non-magnetic stars but to a much smaller extent: Si III is enhanced by between 0.3 - 0.8 dex compared to Si II.We do not detect the discrepancy in three stars, HD 22136 (normal), HD 57608 (HgMn) and HD 27295 (HgMn); these are the only stars in our sample for which the microturbulence parameter is significantly different from zero, and which therefore probably have convection occurring in their atmospheres. We find that vertical stratification of silicon in the atmospheres of B-type stars may provide an explanation of this phenomenon, but our detailed stratification models do not completely explain the discrepancies, which may, in part, be due to non-LTE effects.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&